Volocopter, a German startup building electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles has secured $182 million of investment capital to continue developing its “air taxi,” a plug-in aircraft designed to carry a few passengers on short flights to local destinations.
Wisk Aero, a startup founded in 2019 and backed by Boeing, has debuted its sixth generation remote-piloted “air taxi,” a yellow all-electric four-seat aircraft that can fly without a human pilot. The company touts its plug-in planes as the answer to city traffic congestion.
An all-electric passenger aircraft completed its first 8-minute test flight on Tuesday. The nine-passenger prototype plane named Alice, built by startup Eviation, which claimed that the plane is “ushering in a new era of aviation.”
